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devoid of all sense of false prestige, and should be ready to offer all respect to others. In such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly." Nevertheless, when the Lord was informed that Nityānanda Prabhu was injured by Jagāi and Mādhāi, He immediately went to the spot, angry like fire, wanting to kill them. Thus Lord Caitanya has explained His verse by the example of His own behavior. One should tolerate insults against oneself, but when there is blasphemy committed against superiors such as other Vaiṣṇavas, one should be neither humble nor meek; one must take proper steps to counteract such blasphemy. This is the duty of a servant of a  guru  and Vaiṣṇavas. Anyone who understands the principle of eternal servitude to the  guru  and Vaiṣṇavas will appreciate the action of Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī in connection with the so-called scholar's victory over his  gurus , Śrīla Rūpa and Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī.
Another story fabricated to defame Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī states that after compiling  Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta , Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī showed the manuscript to Jīva Gosvāmī, who thought that it would hamper his reputation as a big scholar and therefore threw it in a well. Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī was greatly shocked, and he died immediately. Fortunately a copy of the manuscript of  Caitanya-caritāmṛta  had been kept by a person named Mukunda, and therefore later it was possible to publish the book. This story is another ignominious example of blasphemy against a  guru  and Vaiṣṇavas. Such a story should never be accepted as authoritative.
According to another accusation, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī did not approve of the principles of the  pārakīya-rasa  of Vrajadhāma and therefore supported  svakīya-rasa , showing that Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are eternally married. Actually, when Jīva Gosvāmī was alive, some of his followers disliked the  pārakīya-rasa  of the  gopīs . Therefore Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, for their spiritual benefit, supported  svakīya-rasa , for he could understand that  sahajiyās  would otherwise exploit the  pārakīya-rasa , as they are actually doing at the present. Unfortunately, in Vṛndāvana and Navadvīpa it has become fashionable among  sahajiyās , in their debauchery, to find an unmarried sexual partner to live with to execute devotional service in  pārakīya-rasa . Foreseeing this, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī supported  svakīya-rasa , and later all the Vaiṣṇava  ācāryas  also approved of it. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī was never opposed to the transcendental  pārakīya-rasa , nor has any other Vaiṣṇava disapproved of it. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī strictly followed his predecessor  gurus  and Vaiṣṇavas, Śrīla Rūpa and Sanātana Gosvāmī, and Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī accepted him as one of his instructor  gurus .
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मालीर हेम्हाय শাখা বহুত বাড়িল ।
বাড়িয়া পশ্চিম দেশ সব আচ্ছাদিল ॥ ৮৬ ॥
mālīra icchāya śākhā bahuta bāḍila bāḍiyā paścima deśa saba ācchādila